delivery van
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdeliveryandvan
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delivery
noun
uk/dɪˈlɪv.ər.i/us/dɪˈlɪv.ɚ.i/
the act of taking goods, letters, parcels, etc. to people's houses or places ...
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van
noun
uk/væn/us/væn/
a medium-sized road vehicle, used especially for carrying goods, that often has no windows in the sides at ...
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(Definition ofdeliveryandvanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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No there are 14,000 vehicles which are in the railways collection anddeliveryvansection.
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What we want to do is to relieve the smalldeliveryvan.
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And no one could conceivably call a lorry of ten tons adeliveryvan.
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Obviously, the problem of thedeliveryvanis different from that of the static shop.
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One is a new type of vehicle—-a four-wheel pedestrian-controlled tightdeliveryvan.
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There was now also a smalldeliveryvan.
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For the driver of a private car or a lightdeliveryvanthis really rubs salt into the wound.
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Let us say that it is used, for example, for a taxi or to garage adeliveryvan.
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There is also an absurd anomaly in the matter of thedeliveryvanagainst the private car.
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It is the ordinary course of business to buy a horse for adeliveryvan, or something of that sort.
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Is enough being spent on research and development re- garding the electric motor car anddeliveryvanfacilities?
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Thus, there is no difficulty in defining the difference between a mobile shop and adeliveryvan.
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But what about the delivery to the man who uses the small localdeliveryvan—the milkman?
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How on earth does the man with adeliveryvanprove whether he drives less than four hours when he has an eight-hour-day?
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I am suggesting, it simply because today the helicopter is the staff car; it is the reconnaisance vehicle; it is thedeliveryvan.
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One member was injured at a cross-roads in a collision between a bicycle and adeliveryvanduring his employment.
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Thedeliveryvanmay be taking out joints already bought, while the mobile butcher's shop is seeking to sell meat to customers on their doorsteps.
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But they are just as much a lorry or motor vehicle as is anydeliveryvanor smaller type of lorry in this country.
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Suppose that the car which really caused the injury was not the municipal dust cart but adeliveryvandistributing evening papers.
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He then chases a moneydeliveryvanand burns all his cash.
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By 1918, it had a staff of 100, including onedeliveryvanand one driver.
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It was a 2.5 cwtdeliveryvanwith a car seat and a steering wheel.
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Most of the customers and staff leave with her in the owner'sdeliveryvan.
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Even taking this at its most reasonable, adeliveryvan, for example, would save about three gallons of petrol each way, and two hours of time.
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Furthermore, the youthful and irresponsible driver is more frequently to be found in the case of the driver of the tradesman'sdeliveryvanof under 30 cwt.
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